{"id":453,"date":"2023-04-30T15:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T15:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilyryall.net\/?page_id=453"},"modified":"2026-05-31T10:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:56:04","slug":"keynote-lectures-and-conference-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emilyryall.net\/?page_id=453","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Lectures and Conference Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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‘Sporting Beauty: Art, Aesthetics and the Value of Sport’. IAI Academy Lecture at the HowTheLightGetsIn<\/em> Festival, Hay-On-Wye, May 2026.<\/p>

‘Inclusion and Categorization in Sport: Exploring Belonging, Fairness and Justice’. Keynote speaker at the European Association for the Philosophy of Sport<\/em>. Istanbul, Turkey. May 2025.<\/p>

‘The Ontological Significance of Being in Games’. Penelope Mackie Research seminar<\/em>. University of Nottingham, November 2024.<\/p>

‘Transgender Inclusion in Sport: How the experience of trans men influences the debate.’ Keynote speaker at the Croatian Bioethics in Sport conference<\/em>. May 2024.<\/p>

\u2018Agential layering in sport and games\u2019 Keynote Speaker at the Czech Philosophy of Sport conference<\/em>. October 2022.<\/p>

\u2018The Future of Research in Body Culture and Play\u2019. Invited keynote speaker at Body Research Conference in Memory of Henning Eichberg<\/em>, Odense, Denmark. November 2018.<\/p>

\u2018Ensuring good governance in sport\u2019. Keynote speaker at British Philosophy of Sport Association<\/em>, Swansea. April 2018.<\/p>

Experimental Stories, Wellcome Research Trust<\/em>, London. October 2017.<\/p>

‘Why Football is better than Golf’ Invited speaker at The Aesthetics of Football<\/em>. Wake Forest University, US. July 2017.<\/p>

\u2018Good Games as Athletic Beauty\u2019 Keynote speaker to Aesthetics of Football Conference<\/em>, Basel, Switzerland. July 2016.<\/p>

\u2018Is it Right that Sport is Segregated According to Sex?\u2019 Invited speaker to Women in Philosophy<\/em>, Newnham College, Cambridge University. November, 2015.<\/p>

\u2018Managing your Reputation before your Reputation becomes your Legacy\u2019 Invited panelist for the SportAccord Convention<\/em>, Sochi, Russia. April 2015.<\/p>

\u2018Monsters, Mutants and Mistaken Metaphors: Why our fears about genetic technology in sport are unfounded.\u2019 Invited speaker to Kings College London: Philosophy, Medicine and Sport Lecture Series<\/em>, March 2015.<\/p>

\u2018Solving or Resolving? Approaching Ethics Through Wittgenstein.\u2019 Invited speaker to the Gloucestershire Philosophy Society<\/em>, Cheltenham, October 2014.<\/p>

\u2018Good Games and Penalty Kicks\u2019 Keynote Speaker at the Aesthetics of Football Symposium<\/em> (sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics), University of Kent, Canterbury, June 2014.<\/p>

\u2018Doping in Sport\u2019 Chair along with Endocrinologist, Professor Richard Holt and Drug scientist, Professor David Cowan. Cheltenham Science Festival<\/em>, June 2014.<\/p>

\u2018Has Cheating Ruined Sport?\u2019 Battle of Ideas Festival<\/em>, London, October 2013.<\/p>

\u00a0\u2018To What Extent Should Coaches Allow Athletes to Put Themselves in Danger in Sporting Situations?\u2019 Invited speaker to Aarhus University, Denmark, October 2012.<\/p>

\u2018The Value of Athletic Performance\u2019 Royal Institute of Philosophy<\/em>, January 2012, London, UK.<\/p>

\u2018Drugs and bionics: enhancing sport?\u2019 Battle of Ideas Festival<\/em>, London. October 2011.<\/p>

\u2018It\u2019s a fair game\u2019 Cheltenham Science Festival<\/em>, Cheltenham, UK. June 2011.<\/p>

\u2018Drawing the line on doping\u2019, Public debate<\/em>, Gloucester, UK. January 2011.<\/p>

\u2018Beyond Human: Conceptualising the Athlete in a Future of Sport and Technology\u2019 The Gloucestershire Philosophical Society<\/em>, Cheltenham, UK. October 2010.<\/p>

\u2018Defining the Human: Philosophical and Ethical Issues in a Posthuman Age.\u2019 Invited speaker for the Qualitative Research Unit<\/em>, University of Exeter, May 2007, Exeter, UK<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2018Why A Coach Should Not Seek To Develop A Virtuous Character In Athletes: A Response To Hardman And Jones.\u2019 International Association for the Philosophy of Sport<\/em>, Los Angeles, USA, September 2013.<\/p>

\u2018Prosthetic Technology and Athletic Enhancement: Blurring the Human\/Nonhuman Divide and What it Means for Elite Sport.\u2019 ICSEMIS<\/em>, Glasgow. June 2012.<\/p>

\u2018Game Playing as the Ideal of Existence: Suits, Utopia and the Singularity.\u2019 International Association for the Philosophy of Sport<\/em>, Porto, Portugal, September 2012.<\/p>

\u2018Coaching as a Moral Enterprise: Reflective Practice and Experimental Philosophy\u2019 ICSEMIS<\/em>, Glasgow. June 2012.<\/p>

A Coach\u2019s Dilemma: Sanctioning risk and ensuring safety\u2019 Sports and Coaching: Pasts and futures<\/em>, June 2011, MMU, Manchester, UK.<\/p>

\u2018More wordplay: further consideration of Suits\u2019 definition.\u2019 Philosophy at Play<\/em>. April 2011, Cheltenham, England.<\/p>

\u2018There\u2019s No Such Thing as a Sports Science\u2019 British Philosophy of Sport Association, Annual Conference<\/em>, March 2009, Dundee, Scotland.<\/p>

\u2018Sport as a Form of Development Aid\u2019 European Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Tri-annual Conference<\/em>, May 2008, Aarhus, Denmark and International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Annual Conference<\/em>, September 2008, Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>

\u2018What\u2019s Wrong with the Idea of an Embodied Athlete\u2019 International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Annual Conference<\/em>, September 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Invited Keynote Lectures ‘Sporting Beauty: Art, Aesthetics and the Value of Sport’. IAI Academy Lecture at the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-On-Wye, May 2026. ‘Inclusion and Categorization in Sport: Exploring Belonging, Fairness and Justice’. Keynote speaker at the European Association for the Philosophy of Sport. Istanbul, Turkey. May 2025. ‘The Ontological Significance of Being in Games’. Penelope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":140,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-453","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t